Weekly Writing Challenges: Nonfiction Archive
YeahWrite #600 Weekly Writing Challenge
Six... hundred? There must be some mistake Traditionally, we've done some kind of event for YeahWrite's milestones. Zoom parties for our birthdays (don't worry, we'll keep doing those) or a special grid (back when we had those) or prompt or badge. But this one kinda...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Line Editing and Copyediting
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
YeahWrite #599 Weekly Writing Challenge
Power of two I got together with my writing partner* this week. It's been a long time since we were able to just sit down and talk about our writing projects face to face. Lots of things have conspired to keep us from focusing on our latest book: there's the pandemic,...
YeahWrite #598 Weekly Writing Challenge
Writing About Writing It makes sense. We’re taught to “write what we know.” We’re told if we don’t develop a daily habit of writing then we’re insufficient. (Who made these rules, and may I give them a piece of my mind?) With that killer combination, OF COURSE...
YeahWrite #597 Weekly Writing Challenge
Peaks and troughs As is often the way in the world of writing, there's been a flurry of my work published all at once. While that's delightful and a huge ego boost, I'm also bracing for the fallow period to come, when it feels like absolutely nobody wants to ever...
YeahWrite #596 Weekly Writing Challenge
Birthday Blues Blues perhaps isn't the right word, but I do love a good alliteration. This week, I turned 37. I'm not one to fret over growing another year older, but I find with each passing year it's harder not to compare myself to others and the milestones I have...
YeahWrite #595 Weekly Writing Challenge
Oh, that's why I think we've all had that moment where we question ourselves. Where we ask why. Why am I even writing when nobody's reading this? Why am I driving 1500 miles when it's exhausting and expensive? Why am I still in school when it's just a bunch of...
The Scarlet Quill Society: Nonfiction
Welcome (back) to the Scarlet Quill Society! This year at YeahWrite our free workshop focuses on everything BUT the writing, with an editorial series that'll take the words right out of your mouth and put them on the page. Of course, we're also including some tips on...
YeahWrite #594 Weekly Writing Challenge
How does it feel? This month's issue of Poets & Writers features Zambian writer Namwali Serpell on the cover with an intriguing pull quote. "I don't want to tell you what happened," she says. "I want to tell you how it felt." I've been thinking on this lately....
YeahWrite #593 Weekly Writing Challenge
Wedgie I forgot to put a writing competition into my calendar, and when I got the challenge email this past weekend I realized I had booked myself up and compartmentalized my writing time to an hour here and 20 minutes there. Honestly, I thought I’d have to pack it...
